Category: Education
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Purpose and Uses of Benchmark Now!
Read MoreAs you are aware, we released a series of interim or benchmark assessments called Benchmark Now!™ These assessments are designed to help teachers identify students’ math knowledge and skills as measured by the Common Core State Standards. The purpose of benchmark assessments is to provide information on group of students and identify where students are […]
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Google Forms – Naiku Comparison
Read MoreWe are sometimes asked how Naiku compares to Google Forms, a free general purpose survey tool, for use in assessment by schools. In short, Naiku is specifically designed for educators and has many built-in features that promote teacher-student feedback, enhance collaboration, give greater insight into student performance by standard and save time. The following table […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #2
Read MoreEngaging Students Without a Projector Did you know that you can easily share Quick Question class results with all of your students without the need for a projector? Whether working with a small group in class or all your students outside of class, simply press the Send Results button and the class results will be […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #1
Read MoreHow To Identify Individual Student Answers Did you know that you can easily identify individual student answers when polling your students with Quick Question? It’s easy – simply hover your mouse over the answer selection, and a pop-up box will highlight all those students (or teachers if you are using in a staff meeting!) that […]
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Naiku receives eSchool Media Readers’ Choice Award
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2012 – Naiku announced today that, for the 2nd straight year, they received a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media. The Honorable Mention award was given for the Naiku SaaS assessment platform, the only such product to receive a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media this year. The Naiku platform is used […]
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Naiku Quick Question helps teachers Bridge the Gap
Read MoreClassroom response systems help a good teacher be a better teacher. There’s nothing magical about it; it’s a lot like the traditional way of eliciting responses from students, only better. If a teacher has ever said, ‘can I see a show of hands’ or ‘let’s take a vote’ or ‘how many of you think …,’ […]
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A Significant and Very Positive Impact on Learning and Teaching
Read More9ine Consulting (www.9ine.uk.com) and Naace ((http://www.naace.co.uk) recently shared The iPad as a Tool For Education – a case study that looks at the use of iPads at the Longfield Academy, where the UK’s largest 1 to 1 iPad program was implemented last year. The study report concluded that the use of iPads produced a “significant […]
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Fifth Graders Use Naiku on ASUS Transformer Tablets
Read MoreLast week, I had the pleasure of visiting a group of 5th graders using Naiku for the first time. Their school had just received a class set of ASUS Transformer tablets. The students and their teacher were excited to use the devices. They were equally excited to use Naiku for the first time. It was […]
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Balanced assessment isn’t sexy
Read MoreIn the era of 1:1, assessment is the often overlooked stepchild Growth of 1:1 The renewed wave of interest and implementation of 1:1 projects in schools recently has been obvious – all over schools are evaluating iPads and other tablets, netbooks, and, given the continued price point decline, laptops. BYOD, once a quickly dismissed subject […]
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Naiku – The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Read MoreThis is a special guest article from one of our Naiku Star teachers. Len Beard is mathematics teacher at Scott Highlands Middle School in Apple Valley, Minnesota. NAIKU- The Missing Piece of the Puzzle I’ve been ‘flipping’ my classroom for nearly a decade. I pre-test and post-test each chapter and use the pretests as a […]